Clearly there are factors which can affect the stats like low or very high attempts, receivers and their efforts to get to balls, etc. Still, Schaub has so far been living with very good neighbors and the assertions of Sage's superior accuracy appear erroneous.

Clearly there are factors which can affect the stats like low or very high attempts, receivers and their efforts to get to balls, etc. Still, Schaub has so far been living with very good neighbors and the assertions of Sage's superior accuracy appear erroneous.

Very interesting.

If we can get a consistent running game and pass protection, our offense could be really dangerous.

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Clearly there are factors which can affect the stats like low or very high attempts, receivers and their efforts to get to balls, etc. Still, Schaub has so far been living with very good neighbors and the assertions of Sage's superior accuracy appear erroneous.

Clearly there are factors which can affect the stats like low or very high attempts, receivers and their efforts to get to balls, etc. Still, Schaub has so far been living with very good neighbors and the assertions of Sage's superior accuracy appear erroneous.

This was the most surprising aspect of Schaub's 2007 season to me. The knock on him at Virginia was that he was not a deep-ball guy (one local rag called him "The Duke of Dink"). Of course, he had no reliable deep threats during his time at UVA, so the Hoos had no choice but to go with the short-passing game that leaned heavily on RBs and TEs.

As was the case with the other positions, this metric review measures medium (11-19 yards), deep (20-29 yards) and bomb (30-plus yards) pass attempts on a yards per attempt basis. The qualifying mark was 150 total pass attempts. The yardage totals once again include "pass in the air" penalty attempts and yards (i.e., pass interference, defensive holding, illegal contact, etc.).

Now that we have the rules out of the way, let's take a look at the top 10 vertical quarterbacks from 2007:

"For those who might have doubts about Matt Schaub after his up-and-down 2007 season, consider this. He posted a 13.7 YPA, despite lining up with Andre Johnson in only four games. They paired up for 294 yards on 17 vertical passes in those contests, so if they both can stay healthy in 2008, they could make a run at placing in the top 10 in many categories."

So basically, for guys who have over 1000 yards passing, Schaub was #1.

And he does this with a random assortment of gimps and fatguys and youngsters as the running backs.

The thing that most impressed me about Schaub was his playaction fake. He hit AJ for tds in 3 of the 4 games they played with eachother off playaction fakes and this was with a running game that didn't scare anybody.

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The thing that most impressed me about Schaub was his playaction fake. He hit AJ for tds in 3 of the 4 games they played with eachother off playaction fakes and this was with a running game that didn't scare anybody.

I agree and imagine what it'll be like with an actual running game.

Also, I remember reading post-game comments about Schaub actually making reads at the LOS creating at least a couple of those long balls. IIRC, one was against the chiefs and the other might've been against the saints.

Anywho, a QB actually making reads at the LOS is a sight for sore eyes.

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